Category: Faith

Ezek 36:10-15, 35
• Land, a house, a field can have a problem on it that is causing people to be sick and die.
• When you are under a curse, everything else is fighting you.
• Enemies are able to get at you when you are under a curse.
• The blessing shields you.
Num 22:6
• As long as you are covered by the blessing, the enemy has nothing on you.
• The words God speaks over a person and over a land become defense and the key to the fruitfulness being enjoyed.
• The words of the Lord empower.
• When God has promised something, our job is to pray it into manifestation.
• Satan also hears words of prophecies and opposes them.
Exo 1:7, 1 Cor 16:9
• When you hear a prophetic word and do nothing about it, you will be frustrated.
• What God has said will be done in your life if you do your part.
• Prophecy requires enforcement. It needs to be enforced into fulfillment.
• It is in the interest of the enemy to make sure God’s word over your life isn’t fulfilled.
1 Kings 18:1
• There is a responsibility on the person on whose head there are prophecies.
• One of these responsibilities is to pray those prophecies into manifestation.
Heb 10:7
• There is a lot of spiritual relaxation amongst children of God.
• Things don’t just happen by themselves, you must enforce changes.
1 Sam 1:27
• When you have received a burden from the Lord, are you able to separate yourself? This can tell you if you are able to cause changes.
• Men change when they are alone with God (Gen 32:24).
Rom 15:4, Est 4:16
• Nobody is coming to change that situation of yours for you.
• No matter how much a man of God prays for you in order for your situation to change, you still have to play your part in order for things to change.
• Take a stand, fight for what you believe.
• Fight for your prophecy.
Job 14:14, 42:10
• Don’t water down your dreams because of circumstances.
Gen 26:21-22
• No prayer is wasted.
Luke 18:1

• Our thought life is actually our life.
• We gravitate towards our most dominant thoughts.
• How we tend to do things is based on how we think.
• No one does things without thinking.
• What you hear affects how you think.
• Overflow will mean nothing if you don’t change your thinking to line up with it.
• If you want to have a new life, have new thoughts.
• New thoughts will lead to a new life.
• If you want to have new thoughts, listen to new things.
• If you don’t change your mind, you can’t have a new life.
• Having christians in positions of power won’t change anything.
• It is not christians that will change things while in positions of power but people that are kingdom-minded.
• Jesus came to introduce the kingdom life.
• Being a christian doesn’t mean you are living the kingdom life.
• After becoming a christian, you must enter the kingdom life.
• A person who is controlled by God in speech, behaviour and every other area of life is someone that will cause changes around.
• The worldly system is controlled by demonic spirits.
• When you first get into a system, the system will try to initiate you into its way of doing things.
• When Daniel and his colleagues arrived in Babylon, the Babylonians tried to initiate them into their system by making them eat their food. Daniel and his colleagues refused to be a part of that system.
Dan 1:20

STEPPING INTO THE SUPERNATURAL OVERFLOW
• God’s method of doing things is that He announces what He is about to do before He does it and wherever what He has spoken is believed, there is manifestation.
• Supernatural – anything that is outside the natural realm, not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws.
• Overflow – a large flow (flood, outpouring), an occurrence of surplus exceeding limit or capacity.

2 Kings 3:17, Amos 9:13-14
• Supernatural overflow is not limited to one area.
• God’s pleasure is to be believed.
• There are many selfish people in the community.
• Don’t expect non-believers to do good for God’s kingdom.
• God wants you to prosper because you will advance his kingdom when you do.
• The church is the hope for the community.
• If there were many people with a heart for the community, plenty will have changed in the community.
• God is counting on you to partner with Him and do good.
• The kingdom of God will advance by God’s people and not anybody else.
• If God’s people are not empowered, they will have limited God.
Neh 2:20

EXAMPLES OF OVERFLOW IN THE BIBLE
1. Building of the tabernacle (Exo 36:5-7)
2. Lev 26:8-10, Josh 23:10
3. The prophet’s widow (2 Kings 4:1-6)
4. The widow of Zarephath (1 Kings 17:13-15)
5. Solomon made silver like dust in Jerusalem (1 Kings 10:27)
6. The siege in Samaria (2 Kings 6:25 – 7:10)
7. Jehoshaphat on the battle field (2 Kings 20:25-26)

• Behind any overflow, there is a supernatural increase.
Exo 34:24, Eze 36:11
• In supernatural overflow, God deals with enemies of increase.
• If your family is increasing but your financial resources are not increasing, it is an error.
• If you’re struggling to feed one child, don’t have another one until something changes.
• God’s way of multiplying is to multiply both people and resources.
• If we’re just labouring to make our families eat, are we sure we can expand the kingdom of God?
Psa 89:20-21, Rom 1:11, 1 Kings 1:39, Ps 65:11 (NLT)

1 Cor 3:6, Psa 71:21
• God is responsible for every increase.
• People can’t stay in the increase they come into because they ignore what God said about increase and do not recognise Him.
• First fruit is the first portion of every increase.
• Tithe is 10% of what God has blessed you with e.g salary.
• The first crops or fruits to ripen in your field is your first fruit.
• According to God, the first born of every person or animal belongs to Him.
• If you have six goats, the first goat that is born from those six goats is your first fruit.
• If you have planted tomatoes, the first tomatoes to ripen are your first fruit.
• If you have a plantation of bananas, the first bananas to ripen are your first fruit. You could have 1000 plants but you will notice those that are the first to ripen and those will be your first fruit. You can either sell those first bananas and give the money as first fruit or give the bananas directly.
• If you have built flats and put tenants in those flats, the first rentals you collect are your first fruit.
• When you start your day with God, that is giving Him the first fruit of your time (day).
• If you have been doing wrong in the area of first fruits, the most important step is to ask God for forgiveness and take a new path.
• The concept of first fruit was for people to realise that in all their labours, it is God who gives increase.
• The first fruit belongs to God, not your biological parents.
Exo 23:16, 19, 34:26, Lev 23:10, 17, 20, 2 Kings 4:42
• First fruit is acknowledging the God responsible for the increase in your life.
• Acknowledgement is shown by our actions.
Prov 3:1-10, Eze 44:30
• REST means to settle down and remain.
• When you enjoy a good thing for a short while and it goes away, that is not rest.
• When God causes increase to rest in your life, it means the increase will settle down and remain in your life.

In summary, some of the the first fruits you should give to God:
1. Your first born
2. The first part of your day
3. First salary
4. Salary increase or promotion at work
5. First business increase (profit)
6. First fruits / crops to ripen
7. First animal to be born from your livestock

• There is power in giving your first to God, including the part of your day.
• Before you can go out to do anything else, give the first part of that day to God.
• It is more difficult to sustain good things.
• Be careful with success, be careful with good things if you are not ready to sustain them.
• Going backwards is not good.
• When you move forward, the bridges you crossed should not still be there as a backup in case you want to go back.
• The only bridges that should be there are the ones you are yet to cross.
• There is a tendency in many people to forget.
• If you maintain the “new-comer” mentality in some areas, you will always see miracles.
• God is behind increase.
• satan is against the increase of good things from God.
• When you have an increase, satan will come to resist you so that the increase doesn’t happen again.
• Many times, our actions don’t show that God is the one responsible for the increase in our lives.
• Have you dedicated your first-born to God?
• Your first-born is a first fruit and belongs to God (Exo 13:6).
• Remove all the attachment you have to your first-born, he/she is not yours. Let the will of God be done in their life.
• Remove all plans / attachments to your first fruit, it doesn’t belong to you.
• God is behind every increase that happens in a child of God’s life and He must be recognised with thanksgiving in practical ways.
• If you started a tomato business in which you bought a box of tomato at K100 and sold it at K120, that K20 profit is your first increase / first fruit in that business and therefore it does not belong to you.
• Tithe is one tenth (10 %) of your income all the time while first fruit is the the first portion of your increase, the first time you get it.
• Your salary was K10 last year and this year you’re promoted and begin to earn K11. That K1 is your first fruit and therefore it all belongs to God. In the months that follow, you continue to give your tithe as usual.
• Honour doesn’t only give you access but makes you stay in the access you’ve been given.
• First-fruit is about your honour to God (Prov 3:9-10)
• If you plant oranges, tomatoes, etc. the first harvest doesn’t belong to you.
• When you get a job, the first salary of that job doesn’t belong to you but belongs to God.
• If the first fruit is well received, the rest is blessed (Rom 11:16).
Lev 23:9-10, Eze 44:30
• The first fruit is divine wisdom.
• Devils come to confuse people so that they don’t practice first fruit right from the start.
• What makes a person to stay in a realm is what they do with the first.
• If you’re wondering why you can’t stay (rest / settle) in the realm of good things you have been brought into, it is because of what you do with the first.
• If you’re wondering why your day doesn’t settle, it is because you don’t give God the first part of your day.
• Starting your day by giving it to God is giving Him the first fruit of your time.
• You don’t remember God at 12am,after having done other things first.

• In business, the first profit from your business doesn’t belong to you. After you have given your entire first profit as first fruit, continue to calculate your tithe from your profits.
• In farming, the first harvest from your crops or livestock doesn’t belong to you.
• When your business is not yet making profit, the issue of tithe and first fruit does not come into play.
• YOU DON’T TITHE OUT OF YOUR BUSINESS CAPITAL.
• So it is better to start your business with wisdom, pay a tithe from the money you are starting business with.
• If your business is stuck and not making profit over a period of time, you need to inquire from God about what you can do to break that siege. He may even tell you to sacrifice.
• God’s desire is for your business to make time.
• If you have an employee who is stealing from you and maybe even modifying financial records, as a business owner you must fire them. Your financial records should be in order so that you know what you are giving to God.
• If you’re running a business with a partner where you have agreed to be splitting profits, your first fruit should come from your own portion of the profits because it is you wants to honour God. Don’t scam your business partner.
• If a non-believer practices the principles of the word of God, he will succeed.
• Your first fruit should be labelled as such because there are blessings that will be spoken over it.
• In this part of the world, one of the challenges we have is that people haven’t been taught honour.
• To delay your tithe is a trap, give it whenever there is an opportunity.
• The devil will try to cause impossible situations to make you not to obey God in your givings.
• If your relative is sick and you have just calculated your tithe,give your tithe first. It is the same God who can touch that sick person (Mat 6:33).
• Let’s stop aborting new levels.
• Demons take advantage when certain things are not in place.
• Ask God for help to practice this because the enemy will try to resist you.
• When the grace for giving comes upon you, it will seem as if you were born a giver and you will receive as freely as you give out.
• Life is about giving and receiving.
• If you ate food but don’t want to go to the toilet, you don’t have room to receive more food.

Gen 1:1-3, Psa 104:24, Prov 8:10-12, 22-30, 4:1-7
• Divine wisdom created us and the things we see.
1 Kings 4:29-34,
• The wisdom of Egypt included keeping people in bondage and limitation – keeping them in a box.
• The wisdom of Egypt hinders you from serving God.
• The wisdom of Egypt wants you to serve God only with your mouth but not your resources.
Exo 7:9-12
• The wisdom of God is an excelling wisdom.
• When you talk about wisdom,you are talking about light (Isa 60:3).

WHAT IS DIVINE WISDOM?
1. That raw gift of God to his children (Prov 13:22, Dan 1:17, 20, 2 Peter 3:15)
• How can God be wise and never give that wisdom as an inheritance to his children?

2. The wisdom that the Holy Ghost teaches (1 Cor 2:13)
• When the Holy Ghost is teaching you, He is teaching you wisdom.

3. The manifestation of the wisdom of God in the life of a man (Acts 6:3, 10)

4. The applied knowledge of truth from our study of the word and from focused meditation (Mat 7:24-25, Psa 119:97-100, 1 Tim 4:13)

Psa 18:11, Exo 20:21
• Satan can’t study God but we can study satan and his tactics.
• You can’t gather sufficient information about God to be able to defeat Him.

5. A product of operating with the mind of Christ (1 Cor 2:16, Dan 5:11-12)
• The presence of the Spirit of God connotes wisdom.
• When we access the wisdom of God, we are truly accessing the light of God.
• The power of light is also seen in the power of wisdom because wisdom is light.

Mat 3:16-4:2, Luke 4:14, Mat 4:12-16, Isa 9:1-2
• The purpose of the great light is to rule (Gen 1:16).

WHAT IS THE POWER OF LIGHT?
1. Light swallows the power of darkness (John 1:5)
2. Light empowers rising and distinction in life and destiny (Isa 60:1)
• It is only possible to arise when your light has come.
3. Light destroys the power of death (Isa 9:1-2, Mat 4:13-17, 2 Kings 2:19-21)

1 Samuel 16:6-7
• When God looks at you, He looks at two things:
1. The state of your heart before Him.
2. The state of your spirit towards Him.
• The state of your spirit is determined by the state of your heart.
• The state of your heart is determined by the principles that you are loyal to.
• If the principles you are loyal to are wrong, you will be a wrong person altogether.
• Life is spiritual and it is controlled from the spirit realm. It operates / functions on divine principles and ordinances, and it is regulated by the word of God and the actions of men.
• Your actions are a by-product of your belief system and the principles that you have subscribed to.

• What is loyalty?
1. The act of binding yourself intellectually or emotionally to a course of action.
2. The quality of being faithful in your support of something.
3. Your inclination, allegiance, dedication to something.

• Loyalty is the character of your heart.
• When God is looking at you, He looks at how loyal your heart is.

4 THINGS GOD IS LOYAL TO
1. HIS WORD (Psalm 138:2, Mat 24:34-35)
2. HIS COVENANTS (Deut 7:9, Psa 89:3-4, Isa 11:1-5, Gen 15:12-15, Exo 2:23-25)
3. HIS PRINCIPLES (Gen 8:22, Eph 6:6-8, Gal 6:7-9)
4. ANY VESSEL OR MAN WHO
a. Trembles and abides by His word (Isa 66:2)
b. Observes in obedience and godly fear the principles and statutes of God (1 Sam 2:29-30)
• The displeasure of the Lord towards you is your weakness.
• The devil understands this well and causes men to be disloyal to the things God is loyal to.

• Priesthood is not a person.
• A priest is a person but priesthood is an office.
• Don’t view the priest as am ordinary person.
• Saul disregarded God’s principles (1 Sam 13:8-13, 15:1-35).
• God cannot prosper you if you are disloyal to things God is loyal to. This makes some christians to keep going around is circles and it look like God’s word doesn’t work because their lifestyle is against God’s principles.
• God is loyal and honours a man who has a deep and sacred approach to His covenant.
• You need to be loyal to people that God has anointed and assigned in your life.
• There are people that are divinely orchestrated to come into your life (Ruth 1:4-17).
• Be loyal to God’s messenger, he operates in an office which is supposed to usher you into your divine destiny.
• When you are loyal to God, He will show you the man that you should submit to.
Deut 28:1-2, 14-15
• When you are sinning, it doesn’t show right there and then.
• When God wants to entrust something to you, He looks at the state of your heart.

• Being a child of God is not a call to laziness.
• Many are born-again and have sat down, not doing anything but coming to church and going back home.
• You should walk with God and work with God in your christian journey.

What is dedication:
• The act of binding yourself to a course of action.
• A complete and whole-hearted fidelity.

• In dedication , there is sacrifice.
• Sacrifice is doing things when the conditions may not be convenient.
• In dedication, there is faithfulness.
• In dedication, there is commitment.
Prov 4:14-16
• God wants us to be dedicated to Him, satan also wants his followers to be dedicated to him.
• If you are dedicated to doing what God tells you to do, the enemy hates that.

WHAT IS IN DEDICATION?
1. PROMOTION (1 Chr 11:6, 17-24)

2. ENTHRONEMENT (Est 10:3, 6:1-11, 1 Sam 18:25, 27)
• Dedication will lead to your quick enthronement.
• Mordecai was enthroned because he was faithful.

3. ANNOUNCEMENT
4. YOU WIN ACCESS TO YOUR MASTER’S HEART (Acts 13:22, James 2:23)
5. ACCEPTANCE AND FAVOUR (Ruth 1:16)
6. DEDICATION PREVENTS SHAME (2 Tim 2:15)
7. ACQUISITION OF AN ANOINTING (2 Kings 2:9)

IN WHAT AREAS SHOULD WE SHOW DEDICATION?
1. PRAYER (1 Thess 5:17)
2. KINGDOM SERVICE (Luke 2:37)
3. GIVING (Eccl 11:1-3, Prov 11:24)
4. SOUL-WINNING ACTIVITIES (Acts 15:26)
5. STUDYING THE WORD OF GOD (2 Tim 2:15)

Mat 24:46

• The bible has been divided into two divisions: obedience to God and service to God.
• For you to be a stable christian,make sure you understand issues of obedience and matters of service to God.
• Serving God is doing things that advance the cause of God’s kingdom.
• Serving God is not something we are born with, it is something you need to work on.
• God will not force you to serve Him, you must make the choice to serve Him.
• Believers who don’t engage in serving God don’t see the full manifestation of the scriptures in their lives.

SOME PLATFORMS ON WHICH TO SERVE GOD
1. SOUL-WINNING AND RETENTION (2 Tim 4:1-2, John 15:7-8, 15-16)

• This is God’s heartbeat.
• Serving on this platform is equal to owning a gold mine.
• When you understand this platform, poverty, lack and want will not be part of your life.
• When you engage in this, you will be one of those that give God pleasure.
• You can’t give God pleasure and also be poor.

2. KINGDOM-ADVANCING PRAYERS (Luke 24:28-32)

• You must be diligent in your service to God (Prov 22:29, Dan 6:16-20, Luke: 2:36-37)
• In most cases, rewards are not at the beginning or middle of the journey but at the end.
• When it comes to serving God, be in it for the long haul.
• Make sure your service is based on revelation.
• God also expects you to serve him delightfully and joyfully (Deut 28:47-48).
• Joy and gladness is a spiritual uniform, it gives you identity before God.

BENEFITS OF KINGDOM SERVICE (Exo 23:25-28)
1. SICKNESS AND DISEASES BECOME A THING OF THE PAST
2. YOU STOP LABOURING IN VAIN
3. SIEGES AND EMBARGOES BECOME BROKEN

PRAYER POINT:
FATHER, BY YOUR MERCY, GIVE ME AN IN-DEPTH UNDERSTANDING OF THE BLESSEDNESS OF KINGDOM SERVICE. HELP ME UP MY GAME IN THIS AREA A THOUSAND TIMES MORE THIS YEAR AND BEYOND.
(JOHN 13:3-5, 15-17)